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Unhappy Homes (Gloom)

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this is a lovely clever little game for those who enjoy a little dark humor. It was created because the authors wife was too nice when playing other games to inflict damage on the other players. So he made one where she could force good things upon her opponents! But in turn each player hastens along their family of characters to the righteous suffering to ensure their place in the hereafter. The concept is a light hearted romp through the very bleak lives.

As to cards them selves, they are very sturdy. The cards are translucent so that you can stack the incidents upon the characters and see through for the assorted point values. Each family comes with a color coded background for the individuals portraits. The homes in the expansion are coded with the same colors. The printing on the cards is aligned perfectly, and I have not been able to scatch the inks. The cards rifle and shuffle quite nicely, though they do "float" a bit when stacked which I prefer to cards that vacuum seal and become hard to pick from a pile one at a time.

But my favorite thing about the game is the captions. A family member might be "squashed by a shoggoth" or "eaten by bears" or perhaps "terrified by topiary"! In the case of "wounded by wasps" they add "... not to mention being bothered by bees and harried by hornets" so you'll find both cute and sly humor as you play the game. It's delightfully tongue in cheek-ily grusome.